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Royal Pingdom:
Last week Google finally unveiled their much-talked-about Chrome OS, and subsequently worked the tech community into a frenzy. The operating system certainly lived up to Google’s initial promises of being browser-centric – it is basically just the Chrome web browser atop a custom Linux kernel. It does everything you’d expec (Read More)
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Submitted by Scbalazs
from Google Reader:
How much would Google be affected by news outlets removing their content and siding with Microsoft's Bing?The war of the search engines enters a new phase as Microsoft considers paying publishers to put their content on its search enging Bing - presumably in the hope they will do as Rupert Murdoch has suggested and remove i (Read More)
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Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Google for “stealing his content”. Google has riposted by saying that news content “is not a big part of how we generate revenue”. Observers have argued that Murdoch doesn’t get the Internet and will destroy his own business. But maybe he just gets it better than we do.Murdoch’s News Corp and (Read More)
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Dan Zarrella:
As you may or may not know, I’ve been working on a book for a while. Well, its finally done and in-stock on Amazon and should be in stores this week. The whole process has been very exciting and a lot of work (I had a ton of help from a great editor, Laurel as well as a whole bunch of other people who are mentioned in the b (Read More)
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Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
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Mashable!:
Google has just announced yet another acquisition. This time, the Internet giant is buying Teracent, a company that tweaks display ads on-the-fly based on a wide variety of factors. According to the official Google blog:“Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display a (Read More)
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Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
E’ indubbio che parole e concetti come “partecipazione” e “democrazia elettronica” suscitino grande fascino e riescano ad attrare nuovi adepti, grazie anche alla forza propulsiva della rete e del web in pimis.Va anche rilevato che dopo l’elezione di Obama tutto il tema che gravita attorno all’eDemocracy e, in seconda battut (Read More)
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Lifehacker:
If you've been using GrandCentral to consolidate your phones since before Google bought the service and turned it into Google Voice, you could still log into your GC account to listen to old messages even after you were upgraded to Voice. If you want to save those old messages for posterity, you'd better do it soon: GrandCe (Read More)
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Submitted by Ivanwalsh
from Google Reader:
Back when Aaron and I worked at The Company That Shall Not Be Named, I was notorious for butting heads with the technical editors at head office. The cause of those situations wasn’t ego or a misguided urge to be a troublemaker, though.My problems with the editors revolved around their attitude towards The Company’s rather (Read More)
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Submitted by Jrblaze
from Google Reader:
Roku is launching a new channel store for the Roku Player, and is adding 10 new free channels: Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision 3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox, and MobileTribe. The Roku Channel store will work on all 3 Roku Player models and will be available to all Roku customers within 2 wee (Read More)
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
In the past few months I've noticed an increased number of posts questioning practicesaround deleting and "virtually" deleting data from databases. Since someof the concerns around this practice have to do with the impact of soft deletes onscalability of a database-based application, I thought it would be a good topic formy (Read More)
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Submitted by Adamsherk
from Google Reader:
More developments in the Rupert Murdoch vs. Google saga today, as the Financial Times reports that discussions have taken place between News Corp and Microsoft on an exclusive deal with Bing that would lead to News Corp blocking its news sites (such as The Wall Street Journal) from Google.I’d actually like to see this happe (Read More)
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Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google , a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a faculty member of Winship Cancer. (Read More)
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Shakesville:
Shaker InfamousQBert forwards this story about Lincoln University in Pennsylvania which makes having a BMI of 30 or less a condition of graduation. If you're 31+, you don't get your diploma without taking a fitness course.So if my fat ass were attending Lincoln University, they wouldn't let me graduate without taking "HPR (Read More)
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